This month our poetry challenge theme is Bye Bye Winter because we are all sick and tired of this mess. I know, it's not Spring yet and we know that, but some (Karen and Maryls) have been eyeball deep in snow for far too long. Our winter has been mild but good land amighty it has rained more than it has done anything else and I'm just about done with it to be honest.
Here is my feeble attempt at poetry once again and links to the other participants.
So Long To The Cold
So long cold weather
nasty wet and windy days
miss you, I will not
Bye Bye Winter
Bye Bye Old Man Winter
You've overstayed your welcome
Please call before returning
as we may not be accepting your visits
Welcome home Spring
ah I see you brought Mr Pollen with you
green green
sniffle sneeze
Out with the old
In with the new
AA AA CHOO
Karen over at Baking In A Tornado : https://www.bakinginatornado.com/2019/03/bye-bye-winter-march-poetry.html
Lydia over at Cluttered Genius : http://www.clutteredgenius.com/?p=9902
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Friday, March 8, 2019
No Longer Friends -March SSS
Have you ever had a friend for YEARS and all of a sudden you're not? I have. It is devastating. seriously. Not once but twice I have had this happen.
My friend...we'll say Monique, we had been friends for over 20 years. Our husbands were friends, her kids babysat my kids, we went to church together, shopping together, damn we even went on vacation together a few times.
Then one day there was a misunderstanding about when I would be at her house to clean for her. She had become disabled and I was cleaning for her every week. I couldn't make it and had phoned to schedule a different time. She misunderstood and next thing I know. BAM! No phone calls, no return calls. No email returns and then her husband contacts me and says I am blocked and for me to NO LONGER come around or call.
WTH are you kidding me?
I returned his email and explained my side of what happened. He said he was siding with his wife and that she no longer wanted to hear from me.
She even told mutual friends that they could not mention my name in her presence any longer.
One mutual friend is a licensed counselor, she has in the past offered to mediate but she refuses.
There is nothing else I can do. I worried over it, fretted, fussed, prayed and was battling migraine headaches for a while and one day decided enough was enough. I let it go. It saddens me on occasion if I think about it too long but it is what it is.
Your “Secret Subject” is:
If one of your closest friends made it obvious that he/she no longer wants to have a relationship would you pursue it to find out why?
Welcome to a Secret Subject Swap. This week 9 brave bloggers picked a secret subject for someone else and were assigned a secret subject to interpret in their own style. Today we are all simultaneously divulging our topics and submitting our posts.
Here are links to all the sites now featuring Secret Subject Swap posts. Sit back, grab a cup, and check them all out. See you there:
Baking In A Tornado https://www.
Never Ever Give Up Hope https://batteredhope.blogspot.
Cognitive Script
Southern Belle Charm https://www.
The Bergham Chronicles https://berghamchronicles.
The Crazy Mama Llama https://thecrazymamallama.com
Part-time Working Hockey Mom https://thethreegerbers.
Climaxed
Friday, February 22, 2019
Did you see that Flash? FF
Here we go again...another great photo and five captions...
Today’s post is this month’s Funny Friday, a regular feature published on the last Friday
of every month. Funny Friday is a collaborative project. Each month one of the participants
submits a picture, then we all write 5 captions or thoughts inspired by that month’s picture.
Links to the other bloggers’ posts are below, click on them and see what they’ve come up
with. I hope we bring a smile to your face as you start your weekend.
of every month. Funny Friday is a collaborative project. Each month one of the participants
submits a picture, then we all write 5 captions or thoughts inspired by that month’s picture.
Links to the other bloggers’ posts are below, click on them and see what they’ve come up
with. I hope we bring a smile to your face as you start your weekend.
Here’s today’s picture. It was submitted by Jules of The Bergham Chronicles.
1. Did you see that Flash? What or who was it?
2. See Mom, it's me! Gigi Flash
3. Whew, how do super heroes wear these mask all the time? I'm sweating!
4. Yes I know it's not Halloween and No I don't care! I'm The Flash
5. I'm never growing up, unless I can wear this everyday.
Click on the links below and let some other bloggers make you smile:
Baking In A Tornado https://www.BakingInATornado.com
Cognitive Script https://cognitivescript.blogspot.com
Friday, February 8, 2019
The Demise of a Rabbit - Feb 2019 UYW
Today’s post is a writing challenge. This is how it works: participating bloggers picked 4 – 6 words or short phrases for someone else to craft into a post. All words must be used at least once and all the posts will be unique as each writer has received their own set of words. That’s the challenge, here’s a fun twist; no one who’s participating knows who got their words and in what direction the writer will take them. Until now.
At the end of this post you’ll find links to the other blogs featuring this challenge. Check them all out, see what words they got and how they used them.
Sue looked at Ted and said "This is a tried and true old fashioned remedy. The old guy at the hardware store swears it will work."
Ted looked kind of skeptical. It was a unique that was for sure but Ted still wasn't sure this would work. It was a sensational idea if you thought about it long enough. The only bump he could think of was Jasper. What if he got into this concoction and it killed him. Shaking his head he walked away, that was something he did not want to think about.
Old Jasper, good ol' boy, man...Ted had gotten him right after college. Geez, that meant he was what...Ted stopped and glanced over at the dog sleeping on his bed by the bay window. Wow, he must every bit of fourteen years old. Sure couldn't tell it when he was after that dadgum rabbit.
Ted walked into his office and happened upon a book in the floor, laying open. He picked it up. "Farmers Almanac, hmm where did this come from?"
There was a tap at the window. He glanced up and screamed, like a girl I might add.
Sue came running into the study, "what, what is it?" she yelled coming into the room.
There stood Ted, still as a rock, eyes glazed over, mouth hanging open. He was staring towards the window. Sue turned and looked, she saw it, that damned rabbit again. HOW he was on the window sill she did not know nor care. She took off for the kitchen, she was determined to finish this concoction and watch that hair ball choke on it if it was the last thing she ever did.
Ted sat down behind his desk sometime later. Scratching his head he wondered just how the rabbit had gotten on the window sill and was he the one who put the book on the floor? Opening the almanac to the page ear marked he read, "
It was high lighted...how the? He looked around and there it was. A highlighter on the floor.
So the rabbit knew about the concoction, but did he know she also put diphacinone in it.
Leaning back in his chair Ted thought, this is one smart rabbit, what if we didn't get rid of it. What if it is some super species, an alien, or what if animals really can communicate and he is trying to tell us something.
"TED!" oh dear lord he almost fell backwards in his chair hitting the floor, startled to say the least he looked up. "yes dear, what can I do for you?"
Sue said, "well for starters you can tell me why I called you three times without any acknowledgment and why you are just sitting there doing nothing?! Aren't you supposed to be on a conference call right now?"
Oh crap...
Thanks to Jules for providing the words this month, I hope I did them justice. Now be sure to go and visit each of the others. See ya next month!!
Links to the other “Use Your Words” posts:
Baking In A Tornado https://www.
Wandering Web Designer https://wanderingwebdesigner.
Cognitive Script
Southern Belle Charm https://www.
The Bergham Chronicles *Jules* https://berghamchronicles.
On the Border
Climaxed
Part-time Working Hockey Mom https://thethreegerbers.
Follow me home https://followmehome.shellybean.com
Your words are:
tried and true ~ sensational ~ upon ~ unique ~ bump
It was submitted by: https://berghamchronicles.
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
My Heart My Gift
Welcome to the February poetry post, our theme this month is hearts, imagine that. Seriously, we try and hope that you enjoy all our efforts.
In January I shared about Sijo poetry. A Korean form of Haiku but with 3 lines only, each line consisting of 14-16 syllables and totaling no more than 44-46.
I found it a challenge after writing Haiku poetry for a few months, so I'm giving it another shot this month.
My Heart My Gift
Once a year we give gifts of love they come from our hearts
my gift to you is my heart please guard it as you would your own
it is needy, fragile and breaks when hurt, so give it lots of love
Haiku version
it will ebb and flow
is wrapped with emotions strong
my heart is my gift
Be sure to visit the other participants in this writing challenge/monthly poetry posting.
Here are their links...
Karen https://www.bakinginatornado.com/2019/02/hearts-and-flowers-february-poetry.html
Lydia http://www.clutteredgenius.com/?p=9892
Jules https://berghamchronicles.blogspot.com/2019/02/hearts-heal-poetrycollaboration.html
Diane https://dlt-lifeontheranch.blogspot.com/2019/02/my-hearts.html
In January I shared about Sijo poetry. A Korean form of Haiku but with 3 lines only, each line consisting of 14-16 syllables and totaling no more than 44-46.
I found it a challenge after writing Haiku poetry for a few months, so I'm giving it another shot this month.
My Heart My Gift
Once a year we give gifts of love they come from our hearts
my gift to you is my heart please guard it as you would your own
it is needy, fragile and breaks when hurt, so give it lots of love
Haiku version
it will ebb and flow
is wrapped with emotions strong
my heart is my gift
💓💔💕💖💗💘💙💚💛💜
Be sure to visit the other participants in this writing challenge/monthly poetry posting.
Here are their links...
Karen https://www.bakinginatornado.com/2019/02/hearts-and-flowers-february-poetry.html
Lydia http://www.clutteredgenius.com/?p=9892
Jules https://berghamchronicles.blogspot.com/2019/02/hearts-heal-poetrycollaboration.html
Diane https://dlt-lifeontheranch.blogspot.com/2019/02/my-hearts.html
Friday, February 1, 2019
From Rabbits to Squirrels - Feb 2019 SSS
You're back! Oh how wonderful, grab a chair, a cup of tea/coffee and prop up those tootsies. Today is Secret Subject Swap. This week 8 brave bloggers picked a secret subject for someone else and were assigned a secret subject to interpret in their own style. Now we are all simultaneously divulging our topics and submitting our posts.
I hope you enjoy and please be sure to stop by the others, the links are below.
Here are links to all the sites now featuring Secret Subject Swap posts.
Baking In A Tornado https://www.
Never Ever Give Up Hope https://batteredhope.blogspot.
Wandering Web Designer https://wanderingwebdesigner.
Cognitive Script
Southern Belle Charm https://www.
The Bergham Chronicles https://berghamchronicles.
Climaxed
Part-time Working Hockey Mom https://thethreegerbers.
Ted was outside yelling like a fool. What in the hell is he yelling at now? thought Sue. She walked closer to the window and cracked it open.
"You stupid little rodent! I have told you over and over that THIS is the bird food! YOUR food is over there!" he was pointing wildly at a corn cob tied to a limb. The squirrel was none to impressed with this behavior. He cocked his head from one side to the other, then sprang forward, grabbed a mouthful of bird feed and he was off and running.
Ted was running too! "YOU damned fuzzy tailed little mongrel, if I get my hands on you... his voice trailed off. There in the path going into the trees behind his house, was IT. That dadgum rabbit!! OMG he thought Sue had killed that thing. He looked over his shoulder toward the house, shoot, she was standing at the window watching him. Probably thought he had lost his mind.
Sue leaned closer, what was he looking at? Wait...no, oh it better not be! THAT RABBIT?!
Running out the back door, down the steps and picking up speed she crossed the lawn in two seconds flat. The rabbit, ears up, turned and disappeared in to the bushes.
"WHERE IS HE, WHERE IS HE?!" Sue was screaming.
Ted looked at her and said "who" in a timid voice.
"WHAT?!!! DID YOU ASK ME WHO? TED you know damned well who. That filthy varmint, that son of a...." she stopped, she saw her neighbors peering over the fence. Oh crap.
"Hey Ted, Sue, everything okay over there?" asked Bob the old nosy retired neighbor that moved in last year.
Changing too a sweet voice Sue replied "Oh sorry Bob just some rodent issues, a wild rabbit that has been wreaking havoc for a while now. Nothing to worry about." She turned and headed toward the house.
Bob and Mary looked at each other, shrugged and head back to their deck chairs. Just as they sat down, they heard those fools neighbors again.
"I'm not yelling at you I'm yelling at the birds, telling them to peck the crap out of that squirrel next time he shows his beady little face here around the feeder again." Ted was yelling but was bringing his voice down as he saw Sue getting red faced, he knew he needed to calm down. These damned animals were making them both crazy.
Sue was already inside, stirring her coffee when she heard a scratching sound. She turned slowly and Jasper was looking right into the eyes of that squirrel who was NOW sitting on the counter eating one of her walnuts!
AARRGGHH she screamed and the squirrel jumped out the window, Jasper nearly catching him by the tail was now howling at the door to get out.
Bob and Mary sitting outside enjoying a sunny afternoon Tom Collins was again interrupted by those fools next door. Sighing they got up and went inside.
Are you wondering what rabbit? Here you can find two other short stories featuring the rabbit, Jasper and the fools next door.
Your “Secret Subject” is:
You hear your neighbor having a loud, aggressive verbal fight with a squirrel that steals from all the neighborhood bird feeders. Tell us a story about the dialogue from the neighbor's perspective or tell us one from yours.
It was submitted by: https://climaxedtheblog.
Friday, January 25, 2019
Blown Away - FF
Time to start the year off with a great photo and funny captions...
Today’s post is this month’s Funny Friday, a regular feature published on the last Friday
of every month. Funny Friday is a collaborative project. Each month one of the participants
submits a picture, then we all write 5 captions or thoughts inspired by that month’s picture.
Links to the other bloggers’ posts are below, click on them and see what they’ve come up
with. I hope we bring a smile to your face as you start your weekend.
of every month. Funny Friday is a collaborative project. Each month one of the participants
submits a picture, then we all write 5 captions or thoughts inspired by that month’s picture.
Links to the other bloggers’ posts are below, click on them and see what they’ve come up
with. I hope we bring a smile to your face as you start your weekend.
Here’s today’s picture. It was submitted by Dawn of Cognitive Script.
1. Driving on the interstate and see a truck hauling not one but two...see the number
2. Well blow me down!
3. I'm blown away by that trailer full.
4. Man that's an air blowing rig there...
5. Fan you see it? I fan.
groan...I'll stop. LOL
Click on the links below and let some other bloggers make you smile:
Baking In A Tornado https://www.BakingInATornado.com
Cognitive Script https://cognitivescript.blogspot.com
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